The Lynch List, 5-Dec-2011

First: You’ve heard me talk about scope creep before – the HRCs know that the only way they can expand their mandate/budget/empire/power is if they gradually redefine the terms in the legislation that enables them. The latest is in relation to services provided by the school board.

Now you and I would probably surmise that the recipients of school services are the children. Not necessarily, says the HRTO, which has accepted a complaint by which a disabled parent is claiming she was discriminated against because the school didn’t give special transportation to her able-bodied children. Apparently it could be argued that schools are supplying a service to adults – childcare.

Second: It makes me uncomfortable to criticize parents of our heroes that have fallen in battle, but I have to shake my head at those who are launching human rights complaints in order to profit off the deaths of their children. After a single complaint was resolved through mediation, four more complaints have arisen, all asking for a $20,000 benefit that normally goes to the immediate family, if any, of a fallen soldier. Even worse, the possible outcome of a landslide in similar complaints is that the policy might get yanked – which means that the spouses and children of our fallen will be left out in the cold thanks to the avaricious human rights system and the greed of a few.

Third: A Tsawassen man believes Section 13 must be retained in order to, among other things, prevent abusive comments on Craiglist. Because sacrificing free speech to a qusi-judicial system staffed by moral busybodies is totally worth all the effort it would otherwise take to roll that mouse wheel with your index finger…

Evolution

Like virtually all other virtual things, The Lynch Mob is a not a static object. In fact, one of the earliest things to change was the name itself. This site started out as The Lynch Files - a couple of days later it was called The Lynch Mob. Same blog, different name. During a sabbatical taken by founder Walker Morrow, others stepped up to keep the blog running and continue to hold the feet of CHRC commissioner Jennifer Lynch - and all her provincial counterparts - to the fire.